Articles by Stephan
Thernstrom
Abigail Thernstrom | Stephan
Thernstrom
- Kellogg's Bet on 'Racial Healing' By Stephen Thernstrom, The Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2010. [read article]
- "New Haven's Racial Test:
Merit doesn't matter for city firefighters." By Abigail
Thernstrom and Stephen Thernstrom, The Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2009. [read
article]
- "Staving Off the 'Yellow Peril':
The University of California regents attempt to curtail Asian admissions" By Stephan Thernstrom, NRO,
February 06, 2009. [read
article]
- "Racial Gerrymandering Is Unnecessary
" By Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom, The Wall Street Journal,
November 11, 2008. [read
article]
- "Obama in Black & White: Candidate as inkblot." By Abigail Thernstrom
and Stephan Thernstrom, National Review Online, August 29,
2008. [read
article]
- "Examining the United Church of Christ." By
Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom, Real Clear Politics,
May 06, 2008. [read
article]
- "Taking race out of the race." By Abigail Thernstrom and
Stephan Thernstrom, Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2008. [read
article]
- "Separation Anxiety." By Abigail
Thernstrom and
Stephan Thernstrom, The Wall Street Journal, November 30, 2007. [read article]
- Demographic Perspectives on Diversity, Racial Isolation, and the
Seattle School Board's Plan to "Cure" Residential "Segregation". By Stephan Thernstrom. [reprint]
- “Harvard’s Crucible: A question
of academic freedom,
and meritocracy,
and sense,” National
Review, April
11, 2005.
[reprint]
- “Talk About Affirmative Action:
John Roberts
could make a
big difference
on the Court,” (with
Abigail Thernstrom),
National Review
Online (NRO),
July 28, 2005.
[reprint]
- "Have We Overcome?", November
2004 Commentary (with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Secrecy and Dishonesty: The
Supreme Court, Racial
Preferences, and
Higher Education," Constitutional
Commentary,
vol. 21, forthcoming 2004 (with Abigail
Thernstrom)
- "Deconstructing the Urban NAEP
Results," Gadfly, January 22,
2004 (with
Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Rediscovering the Melting Pot—Still
Growing Strong," Tamar Jacoby,
ed., Reinventing
the Melting
Pot: The New Immigrants and What
it Means to be American (New
York: Basic
Books, 2004)
- "Does Your 'Merit' Depend upon
Your Race? A Rejoinder
to Bowen and Bok," in Steven
M. Cahn, The Affirmative
Action Debate
(New York: Routledge, 2nd edition,
2002) (with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "The Demography of Racial and
Ethnic Groups," in Thernstrom
and Thernstrom,
- Beyond the Color Line: New Perspectives
on Race and
Ethnicity in America, (2002)
- "Schools That Work," John
E. Chubb
and Thomas Loveless, eds., Bridging
the Achievement Gap (Washington,
D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002)
(with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Racial Preferences in Higher
Education: An Assessment
of the Evidence," Stanley
A. Renshon,
ed., One America? Political
Leadership,
National Identity, and the Dilemmas
of Diversity (Georgetown University
Press, 2001) (with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Admissions Impossible: California
without the SATs," National
Review, March 19,2001 (with
Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Even in This Election, It is
Not Class Warfare," Los Angeles
Times, November
27, 2000 (with Abigail
Thernstrom)
- "The Wrong Answers," Taking
Sides, ABCNEWS.com,
June 16, 2000
- "Affirmative Action," International
Encyclopedia
of the Social and Behavioral Sciences,
(with Abigail Thernstrom
- "Plenty of Room for All: Does
the High Level of Immigration to the
U.S. Hold a Lesson for Europe?" Times
Literary
Supplement, May 26, 2000
- "One Drop Still--A Racialist's
Census," National Review, April
17, 2000
- "Answer the Census. The Alternative
is Worse," Wall Street Journal,
April 6,
2000 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Civil Rights: What Went Wrong?" Wall
Street Journal,
January17, 2000 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Status Anxiety" (review
of Nicolas
Lemann's The Big Test), National
Review,December 6, 1999
- Comments for symposium on the definition
of "merit," New York Times,
October 23,
1999
- “Alamo in Ann Arbor,” National
Review, September
13, 1999
- "Black Progress," ch. 4
of Christopher
Foreman, ed., The African American Predicament,
Brookings Institution Press, 1999 (with
Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Reflections on The Shape of
the River," UCLA Law Review,
Vol. 46, June 1999 (with
Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Asian Americans versus Multiculturalism," Academic
Questions,
Spring 1999
- "Racial Preferences: What We
Now Know," Commentary, February,
1999 (with
Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Another Bend in The Shape of
the River," Washington Post,
December 14, 1998
- Breakfast Table," Slate, December
8-11
and 14-18, 1998; nine days of guest columns
on the current news
- "The Consequences of Colorblindness," Wall
Street Journal,
April 7, 1998 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Black Progress: How Far We've
Come--and How Far We Have to Go," The
Brookings
Review, Spring, 1998 (with Abigaill
Thernstrom)
- "American Apartheid? Don't Believe
It," Wall Street Journal, March
2, 1998 (with
Abigail Thernstrom),
- Contribution to Symposium, "Is
Affirmative Action on the Way Out?
Should It Be?" Commentary March,
1998 (with
Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Good News About Racial Progress," Reader's
Digest, March
1998 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Diversity and Meritocracy in
Legal Education:
A Critical Evaluation of Linda F. Wightman's
'The Threat to Diversity in Legal Education,'" Constitutional
Commentary,
v. 15 (Spring, 1998)
- "Farewell to Preferences?" The
Public Interest,
Winter 1998
- "The Scandal of the Law Schools," Commentary,
December
1997
- "Dialogue" with Randall
Kennedy on
the subject of race in Slate; five exchanges
between October 14 and December 16, 1997
(with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "We Have Overcome: The Good News
About Race Relations," The New
Republic,
October 13, 1997 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Black Progress: The Greatest
Gains Came Before Affirmative Action," San
Diego Union-`
Tribune, September 21, 1997 (with
Abigail Thernstrom)
- "The Real Story of Black Progress," Wall
Street Journal,
September 3, 1997 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Caught in the Skills Gap: Why
the Progress of Young Black Americans
Has Gone Into Reverse," Times
Literary
Supplement, June 6, 1997 (with Abigail
Thernstrom).
- "The Prescience of Gunnar Myrdal," The
Public Interest,
Summer 1997 (with Abigail
Thernstrom).
- Review of Michael Lind, The Fourth
American
Revolution, The Public Interest, Winter
1996
- Review of Dinesh D'Souza, The End
of Racism
and Manning Marable, Beyond Black and
White, December 8, 1995 Times Literary
Supplement
- "Critical Observations on the
Draft Final Report of the Special Committee
on Race and Ethnicity to the D.C. Circuit
Task Force on Gender, Race, and Ethnic
Bias," Public Interest Law Review,
1995 annual
edition
- "The Promise of Racial Equality," in
Lamar Alexander
and Chester E. Finn, eds., The New Promise
of American Life, The Hudson Institute,
1995 (with Abigail Thernstrom)
- Review of Peter Brimelow, Alien Nation,
Washington
Post Book World, April 2, 1995
- "The Black-White Student Mismatch
Problem
in University Admissions, Journal of
Blacks in Higher Education, Winter 1994/1995
- "Racial Bias in the Federal Courts?" Wall
Street Journal,
March 22, 1995
- "Reflections on Race, the Central
City, and the Economy," The
Aspen Institute Quarterly,
Winter, 1994
(with Abigail Thernstrom)
- "Asian Americans: The Declining
Significance of Race," The American
Experiment,
Center for the New American Community,
Summer, 1993
- "Hello Columbus," American
School Board
Journal, October, 1991 [reprinted in
Spring, 1992 American Educator]
- "American Ethnic Statistics," in
Donald L.
Horowitz and Gerard Noiriel,
ed., Immigrants in Two Democracies:
French and American Experience, New York
UniversityPress, 1992
- "McCarthyism Then and Now," Academic
Questions,
Winter, 1990-91
- "The Minority Majority Will Never
Come," Wall Street Journal,
July 26, 1990
- "Counting Heads: New Data on
the Ethnic Composition of the American
Population," Journal of Interdisciplinary
History,
Summer, 1989.
- "Just Say Afro," The New
Republic,
January 23, 1989.
- " Poverty and Progress Revisited:
A Response to Reiss, Frisch, and Pessen," Social
Science History,
Spring, l986
- "Poor but Hopeful Scholars," Oscar
Handlin,
ed., Glimpses of the Harvard Past, Harvard
University Press, 1986
- "The Humanities and Our Cultural
Heritage," Chester Finn, Diane
Ravitch,
and P. Holley Roberts, ed., Challenges
to the Humanities, Holmes and Meier,
1985
- "Comments on Zunz," Journal
of American
Ethnic History, Spring, 1985
- Review of Hasia Diner, Erin's Daughters
in America
and Dennis Ryan, Beyond the Ballot Box,
New England Quarterly, June, 1984
- "Ethnic Pluralism: The U.S. Model," Charles
Fried, ed.,
Minorities: Community and Identity, Springer-Verlag,
1983
- "Ethnic Groups in American History," Lance
Liebman,
ed., Ethnic Relations in America, Prentice-Hall,
1982
- Review of Thomas Sowell, Ethnic America:
A History,
Washington Post Book World, August 16,
1981
- "A Conversation with Stephan
Thernstrom," Brace Stave, ed.,
The Making
of Urban History, Sage, 1977
- "The New Urban History," Charles
Delzell,
ed., The Future of History, Vanderbilt
University Press, 1977
- "Two Centuries of Immigrants," The
American
Issues Forum, 1976
- "Rejoinder to Alcorn and Knights," Historical
Methods Newsletter,
June, 1975
- "A Comment on Socialism and Social
Mobility," S.M. Lipset and John
Laslett,
eds., The Failure of a Dream?, Doubleday,
1974
- "The Growth of Los Angeles in
Historical Perspective," Werner
Z. Hirsch,
ed., Los Angeles: Viability and Prospects
for Metropolitan Leadership, Praeger,
1971
- "Reflections on the New Urban
History," Daedalus, Spring,
1971
- Foreword to Michael Katz, Class, Bureaucracy,
and Schools,
Praeger, 1971
- Review of John Armstrong, Factory
Under the
Elms, Journal of American History, December,
1970
- Review of Mayer and Wade, Chicago:
Growth of
a Metropolis, American Historical Review,
October,1970.
- "Men in Motion: Some Data and
Speculations on Urban Population Mobility
in Nineteenth-Century America," Journal
of Interdisciplinary
History,
Autumn, 1970 (with Peter Knights)
- "Working Class Social Mobility
in Industrial America," Melvin
Richter,
ed., Essays in Theory and History:
An Approach to the Social Sciences,
Harvard University Press, 1970
- "The Myth of American Affluence," Commentary,
October,
1969
- Review of Daniel P. Moynihan, Maximum
Feasible
Misunderstanding, Commentary, May, 1969
- "Poverty in Historical Perspective," Daniel
P.Moynihan,
ed., On Understanding Poverty, Basic
Books, 1969
- "Quantitative Methods in History:
Some Notes," S.M.Lipset and
Richard Hofstadter, ed.,
Sociology
and History: Methods, Basic Books,
1968
- Comments for Symposium on Black Power,
Partisan
Review, April, 1968
- "Notes on the Historical Study
of Social Mobility," Comparative
Studies in
Society and History, Spring, 1968
- "The Case of Boston," Proceedings
of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, 1968
- "The Historian and the Computer," Edmund
Bowles, ed.,
Computers in Humanistic Research, Prentice-Hall,
1967
- "Up From Slavery," Perspectives
in American
History, 1967
- Review of Richard Elman, The Poorhouse
State, November
13, 1966 Washington Post Book Week
- Review of Gerhard Lenski, Power and
Privilege,
American Sociological Review, October,
1966
- Review of Christopher Lasch, The New
Radicalism
in America, Dissent, January, 1966
- Review of E.P. Thompson, The Making
of the English
Working Class, Dissent, Winter, 1965.
- "'Yankee City' Revisited: The
Perils of Historical Naïveté," American
Sociological
Review, April, 1965
- Review of Donald B. Cole, Immigrant
City, Journal
of Economic History, June, 1964
- "Oswald Garrison Villard and
the Politics of Pacifism," Harvard
Library Bulletin,
Winter, 1960
- Review of S.M. Lipset and Reinhard
Bendix, Social
Mobility in Industrial Society, Dissent,
Autumn, l960
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